Corner piece for milk crates and the like



Feb" 5 9 1924, EAZSEQ s. M. MOINTYRE CORNER PIECE FOR MILK CRATES AND THE LIKE Filed Jan. 20, 1923 Flt-.5

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STANLEY M. MGINTYRE, OF CINCINNATI, OHlIO.

CORNER PIECE FOR MILK CRATES AND THE LIKE.

Application filed January 20, 1923. Serial No. 614,003.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, STANLEY M. Mo- INTYRE,.a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cincinnati, in

the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvementin a Corner Piece for Milk Crates and the like, of which the following is a specification.

lo An object of my invention is to provide a milk crate structure that is simple, strong and efiicient.

Another object of my invention is to provide a device for the purposes stated that may be formed integral thereby reducing the effort and labor required to produce milk crates and the like.

Another object of my invention is to eliminate certain objectionable features heretofore encountered in milk crates and the like. i

These and other objects are attained by the means described herein and disclosed in. the accompanying drawings, in which crate embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of a corner piece embodying my invention.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmental View of a crate having mounted on it a corner piece embodying my invention showing the inside structure of the crate and the corner piece.

v Fig. 4 is a sectional view on a reduced scale on line dof Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a development of a corner piece embodying my invention.

Referring to Fig. 5, the corner piece of my invention comprises a Hat band of metal adapted to be cut to the form disclosed and adapted to be bent upon the dotted lines. The corner piece comprises an outer section 6 consisting of flaps 7 and 8 bent along line 9 at an angle of substantially 90 degrees. At the upper and lower ends of flaps 7 and 8, said flaps are bent upon lines 10 and 11 to form upper ledges 12 and 120 and lower ledges 13 and 130, the'adjacent edges 14, 15, 16 and 17 of which are adapted to lie immediately adjacent one another, in fact to engage upon one another when the flaps 7 and 8 are disposed at the angle stated. The ledges 12 and 120 carry upper inside flaps 18 and 19 and are adapted to be bent upon the lines 20 and 21 so as to lie u on the inner faces 22 and 23 of the upper s ats 2e and 25 Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a milk i of the crate 26. The lower ledge 130 car'- with the flap 8 when the corner piece is mounted upon the crate. The several laps and flaps are provided with registering per forations 34 through which suitable fastening means such as bolts 35 may be inserted for securing the slats of the crates and the corner. pieces upon one another, and for securing the parts of the corner strip in the position shown in Fig. 2. Suitable wires 350 are laced between the slats to provide a bottom for the crate as is common in the art.

What I claim is:

1. A corner piew of the class described comprising a flap and a lap extending insubstantial parallelism, a bottom ledge spacing the lap and the flap at one end, an upper inside flap extending in substantial paralleli'sm with the lap, an upper ledge spacing the inside flap and the flap and disposing the inside flap adjacentthe flap, a second flap carried by the first flap and extending longitudinally of the first fiap, the second flap having an upper and a lower ledge disposed at its opposite ends, an upper inside flap carried by the upper ledge and a lower inside fiap carried by the lower ledge, the ledges spacedly supporting the "two last mentioned inside flaps in substantial parallelism with the flap, and a second lap carried by the first lap extending at an angle to the first lap, and in substantial parallelism with the second mentioned flap.

2. A corner piece of the class described comprisin a flap and a lap extending in substantia parallelism, a bottom ledge spacing the lap and the flap at one end, an upper inside flap extending in substantial parallelism with the lap, an upper ledge spacing the inside flap and the flap and disposing the inside flap adjacent the lap, a second flap carried by the first flap and ex! tending longitudinally of the first flap, the second flap having an upper and a lower ledge disposed at its opposite ends, an upper inside flap carried by the upper ledge and a lower inside flap carried by the lower ledge, the ledges spacedly' supporting the two last mentioned inside flaps in substan tial parallelism with the flap, a second-lap carried by the first lap extending at an angle to the first lap, and in substantial parallelism with th second mentioned flap, and means for securing the parts in position and for mounting the device at the corner of cratesand the like. 7

3. In a crate the combination with slats disposed at an angle one to the other, of corner pieces for mounting at the ends of p the slats, the corner .pi'eces extending from. a point inside the crate upwardly and over the upper edge of the crate, thence downwardly over the outer sides of, the slats, thence over the bottom edges of the crate, thence upwardly inside the crate over, beyond and adjacent the first mentioned portions of said corner pieces, and means ex I tending through the slats and through the corner pieces for securing the slats and cornerpl'eces upon one another.

4. In a crate the combination with slats disposed at an angle one to the other, of

corner pieces for mounting at the ends of the slats, the corner pieces extending from wardly I over the outer sides of the slats,

thence over the bottom edges oi the crate d subscribed my name this 16th day of J anuary, 1923 thence upwardly inside the crate over an adjacent the first mentioned portions of said corner pieces, and projecting upwardly be disposed at an angle one tothe other, of

corner pieces for mounting at the ends of the slats, the corner pleces comprising a pan:

of flaps bent at an angle to one another along a line extending longitudinally of said flaps, a lower ledg% carried by each of the flaps, said ledges eing separate one from the other, and being bent upon the flaps for bringing the opposed edges of the ledges immediately adjacent, a lower inside fiap carried by one ledge and bent at an angleto said ledge for disposing said lower in side flap insubstantial parallelism with the flap carrying said ledge, a pair of inside laps carrie'dby the second ledge, one of said inside laps being offset from the second mentioned'ledge, the inside laps being bent upon oneanother upon a line extending longitudinally of said laps and at an angle substantially identical tothe angle at which the flaps are bent on one another, the second inside lap being bent upon the second mentioned ledge for'disposing the second inside lap in substantial parallelism with one of the flaps and for disposing the first mentioned inside lap in substantial parallelism with the lower inside flapa-nd with the flap carrying said lower insidefia In testimony whereof, I ave hereunto STANLEY M. McInTYRn. 

